On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:31:13 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Thank you!
>> 
>>>If processing string specifier s, S, or Z, format specification processing 
>>>stops, a NULL is placed at the beginning of the buffer.
>> 
>> I hope this is not an MS extension/implementation detail since I did not 
>> find this in any other places.
>
>>@mrserb this change was to a Windows specific file.
> 
> That change removed the windows specific version of the JLI_Snprintf, and now 
> we use
> `#define JLI_Snprintf   snprintf` on all platforms. And my question was about 
> that "cross-platform" `snprintf`. As linked in the comment above on Windows 
> it adds the null at the start of the buffer in case of error when a negative 
> value is returned. But is that specified by the c99?

@mrserb we already had the define for non-Windows, this change just made it 
unconditional. This change only had an affect on Windows where we removed the 
custom `JLI_Snprintf` and started using `snprintf` the same as all other 
platforms.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10625#issuecomment-1651039136

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